Helen has had around thirty competition wins/shortlistings for both poetry and short stories, successes including Words with Jam, The Ryedale Book Festival, Writing Magazine, Writers’ News, Writers’ Forum, Flash500, Thynks Publications, Erewash Writers and various online contests.

She has also had work published in An Earthless Melting Pot, Vol. 2 (Quinn), the One Word Anthology by Talkback Writers (Alfie Dog Ltd), Songs of Angels (Thynks), the Aspiring Writers 2013 Winners Anthology (Blue Dragon Press), The Best of CafeLit 3 (Chapeltown) and A Quick Read (Aspen Press), with two more poems shortly to appear in a forthcoming anthology. She was recently featured in Issue 14 of Jotters Utd.

Monday, 3 August 2015

The truth of my words spiked the air around us. He stopped in his tracks, piercing me with his wicked blue eyes.

‘And that’s what you want?’ he muttered.

‘I…’ I stammered, taking a step back but only finding the cool wall. Looking up, he’d edged closer, towering over me, blocking the setting sun from the window opposite. I’d been honest once, another time wouldn’t hurt.

Or it might. But the time for considering consequences had passed long ago.